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We all know 300, Watchmen & Sucker Punch director
Zack Snyder loves his unique style of CGI, so what do we make of the first image (above) of
Michael Shannon (if it's not him, he must have a twin) on the set of his Superman reboot
Man of Steel that surfaced over the weekend? As you can see Shannon is wearing a costume similar to what Andy Serkis wore whilst filming Rise of the Planet of the Apes before being replaced by motion capture animation in post-production... Is Zod being setup the same way? Clearly some sort of extensive CGI is going to replace Shannon in whatever scene they are working on in that location above... but just what do they have in mind here?
/film were quick to speculate that General Zod may not be the military figure that is the best known depiction of the character and one that has already appeared in the Richard Donner movies, memorably played by
Terence Stamp;
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They predict that he may be closer to the warlike armored God that artist
Jim Lee depicted as the character in his 2004 comics run;
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Others have speculated the CGI could work like the Iron Man armour from the Marvel movies or could be something that the powerful alien General creates as a costume for himself when required... like Green Lantern's CGI suit from this summer. Whatever the truth... it's definitely an image that has us intrigued. Perhaps Zod might look like the big creature imagined in Sucker Punch;
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Shudder at the though, eh?